Whether it’s for your own personal safety, for roadworthiness tests or to avoid a fine, ensuring your headlamp bulbs are in every case operational is extremely important. In reality, bulbs are wearing parts that will undoubtedly burn out in the future and therefore need to be swapped out. You’re most likely in this article because one of your parking lights is burnt out and you’re wondering how to change your Suzuki Sx4’s license plate bulb, we’ve made this content page to help you do it by yourself and not have to go to your motor mechanic. Firstly, we will examine changing the license plate bulb from the outside, secondly, how to change the license plate bulb without outside access, and thirdly, how to change the rear license plate bulb of your Suzuki Sx4.

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How to swap the license plate bulb on your Suzuki Sx4 coming from the outside

This method is the most simple of the two, in fact, for this one you will just have to remove the protective covers of the bulbs. Regrettably on some years or packages of car these covers do not open from the outside and if this is the situation we will spend some time on in the second section of this article to demonstrate the approach.
So let’s begin with replacing the number plate bulb by going through the outside of your Suzuki Sx4. Whether it’s the front or the back of your motor vehicle the operation will be the same.
Here are a few simple steps to follow to conduct this maintenance tasks:

  • With the engine turned off, disconnect the battery terminals from your car
  • Position yourself in front of your license plate and use a flat screwdriver or knife to place the flat part into the notch assigned for this purpose (in general on the transparent cover) and lever on the plastic window to open the license plate bulb slot of your Suzuki Sx4
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  • Use your screwdriver or knife to eject the bulb from its location, in the event that you are worried of damaging a thing, you can as well do it with your fingers.
  • Finally, position the new license plate light bulb
  • Last stage, before reassembling, reconnect your battery and test the light to confirm the successfulness of the process.

How to change the number plate bulb on your Suzuki Sx4 without outside access

Second section of our article, change this license plate bulb on your Suzuki Sx4 without external access. Most often you will be able to access it, however some series (often at the rear does not allow this access).

How to swap the front license plate bulb on my Suzuki Sx4

To swap the one on the front plate, nothing could be easier, you will have to position yourself under the motor vehicle (ideally put on candles to give you some space), and, going through the rear of the bumper, you will have to unclip the license plate bulb block, in general kept by two soft plastic tabs by pressing on both at the same time, then now that you have your license plate bulb block in hand, Take off the plastic that works as a seal, then with a thin screwdriver, on one side you will find a small notch, use a lever to open the plastic cover (be careful not to exert too much pressure otherwise you will break the plastic cover), and you will simply have to remove the burnt-out license plate bulb and replace it with the new , then test and reassemble the whole thing.

How to swap the rear license plate bulb on my Suzuki Sx4

Finally last possibility, you must swap the bulb on the backplate of your Suzuki Sx4, but you simply cannot open the cover from the outside of your motor vehicle. In this instance, here is the tactic to accomplish this task:

  • Unplug the battery from your Suzuki Sx4
  • Find the spot of your light bulbs from the outside.
  • From the inside of the trunk, you have to remove the lining of the trunk, kept by clips, you will have to lever gently on all the frame of the trunk to remove it.
  • Once located, before removing the bulb holders, disconnect the holders for less complicated access.
  • Using a screwdriver, lever the two plastic parts to remove the bulb holder
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  • Replace the burnt-out license plate bulb on your Suzuki Sx4, test it and reassemble it, watching the clips on the trunk liner

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There you have it, you have found out the main tactics for replacing license plate bulbs on your car, be aware that on some models the method may be a bit different but you should be able to accomplish it following the outline of this content page. If you can’t do it, don’t be reluctant to go to your garage it would be a shame to break a part of your Suzuki Sx4. If you desire to change other bulbs like the position light bulbs on your Suzuki Sx4 or the low beam bulbs on Suzuki Sx4, don’t be reluctant to read our articles which demonstrate you the operation to follow.

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